# Amaya vs Ayala

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Amaya
*name · frequency rank #48,053*
A female given name from Spanish borrowed from Spanish in the 1990s.

### Ayala
*name · frequency rank #38,294*
A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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